Senior Corporate Development Manager

About the role: Forter is entering a phase of increased focus on inorganic growth, strategic partnerships and new value creation opportunities, as part of our broader strategy to become the trust engine for agentic commerce. As Senior Corporate Development Manager , you will own the end-to-end corporate development agenda – across acquisitions, strategic partnerships and emerging data monetization opportunities. You'll be the central point of ownership for evaluating and executing strategic opportunities, partnering closely with the SVP of Business Development (who this role reports to), the executive team, and business unit leaders to ensure Forter consistently identifies, prioritizes, and executes high-impact opportunities that accelerate our long-term strategy. What you’ll be doing: • M&A Infrastructure: Build Forter's formal M&A playbook, including build/buy/partner frameworks, due diligence processes, and post-merger integration templates. • Deal Sourcing & Pipeline: Source and evaluate acquisition and partnership opportunities, building a prioritized pipeline with clear strategic rationale and investment theses. • Deal Execution: Drive M&A transactions end to end, coordinating due diligence, transaction documents, and closing activities across functions. • Post-Acquisition Integration: Lead integration planning and execution, covering operating model, product/tech integration, data and compliance, and people and culture. • Financial Analysis: Partner with Finance on valuation, financial modeling, and return analysis to support disciplined decision-making. • Ecosystem & Data Strategy: Help shape strategy for unlocking value from Forter's data network, and represent Forter externally with partners, investors, and industry forums. What you’ll need: • 7+ years in corporate development, strategy, investment banking, management consulting, private equity, and/or venture capital, with hands-on ownership of M&A and partnership transactions. • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. • Demonstrated track record leading end-to-end M&A processes: sourcing, diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation, and post-close integration. • Experience in high-growth tech, ideally fintech, fraud prevention, identity, payments, e-commerce, or AI/ML. • Advanced financial modeling and valuation skills, with experience partnering across Finance and Legal on capital allocation decisions. • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives, influencing senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Security, and GTM. • Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to navigate high-pressure deal cycles while maintaining founder-friendly relationships. About Us: Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it. Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy. Customer expectations have a new ceiling. And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement. Forter was built to meet this moment — and stay ahead of it. We are a human-first, AI-built company. Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey — from sign-up to checkout to returns — that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously. With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it’s humans or the agents shopping for them. The result: zero friction for the customers who matter. No revenue left behind. The world's most trusted brands — Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay among them — rely on Forter to get this right. Since 2013, we've raised $525M from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures, and today we power commerce decisions